US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Nov. 18 for "Surgical devices, systems, and methods using fiducial identification and tracking" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,002, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical devices, systems, and methods using fiducial identification and tracking" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio) and Andrew C. Deck (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, devices, systems, and methods for fiducial identification and tracking are provided."

The patent was filed on Oct. 5, 2021, under Application No. 17/493,920.

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